1) What is one claim or observation that Kolber makes in "Butterfly Lessons"? Locate a quote to frame your response.
2) How might you relate "Butterfly Lessons" to your project on place and environment?
1) Kolber talks about how humans have caused so much damage to the natural world that we have completely wiped some species of the map. "Meanwhile, thanks to us, the world today is a very different-and in many ways diminished-place. International trade has introduced exotic pests and competitors; ozone depletion has increased exposure to ultraviolet radiation; and many species have already been very nearly wiped out, or wiped out altogether, by over hunting and over harvesting. Perhaps most significantly, human activity, in the form of farms and cities and subdivisions and mines and logging operations and parking lots, has steadily reduced the amount of available habitat." The last portion of this quote is specifically talking about pushing living things from their homes and claiming the land for ourselves. This is the part of the article that really sticks out to me because I live in a rather rural area, well rural in a sense, but it is becoming a major tourist attraction. Large corporations are slowing eating away at every empty piece of land to try and expand their empire of tall buildings.
2) This relates to my project in a slightly obscure way. While Kolber is specifically talking about humans using land that was inhabited by animals for our own benefit, my project is talking about how even years after a facility has been shut down and the land "visibly barren" the animals are still at loss. TCE and other harmful volatile organic compounds are flowing through the groundwater and even present in the air if you are walking through the area where the streams surface. This is ultimately devastating for nature, and ALL life forms.
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